Tagging-Best-Practices.md

Tagging Best Practices for Azure Resources

Tagging resources is highly coupled to the team culture, organizational tree, etc.

Rules and Restrictions

Each resource can have a maximum of 15 tags

The tag name is limited to 512 characters, and the tag value is limited to 256 characters

Tagging Strategy

Tag resources when creating them, this will prevent un-tagged resources somehow (glitch on provisioning steps of creating resources, etc.)

Common Approaches for Tagging

Use tags to group/filter resources for cost analysis

CostCenter=CC1234

BillingCode=BC1234

Region=Global or Region=LATAM

Responsible=DataScienceTeam-15 or Owner=john@doe.com

Use tags to group/filter resources for versioning

Version=1

Version=2019-08-16

Use tags to group/filter resources for projects

Project=AnalyticalSandboxes or Project=Project1234

Use tags to group/filter resources for use-cases

Environment=Staging

Reason=FrontEnd

Dependency=WebApi

References

Naming conventions for Azure resources

Azure Tagging Best Practices

Tagging Best Practices for Cloud Governance and Cost Management

Azure Resource Tagging Best Practices

Resource Tagging Best Practices (Part 1 - Auditing)

Resource Tagging Best Practices (Part 2 - Enforcement)